The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-28
EXPENSIVE FOR PIE MAKING.
A Splendid Collection of Birds at the
Garden.
From the Ne,O York Times.

Garden.
From the Ne,c York Times
When Noah, during the prevalence of one
of the most disastrous tidal waves recorded
in history, went cruising around in the ark
looking for Mount Ararat, he did not have
Waterbury watch with him. But he did
have the original rooster, and that rooster
filled the bill. He, the rooster, announced
sunrise as regularly as the latest improved
alarm clock could have done. Noah's look
out on the memorable voyage referred to
was dove, who first discovered and
brought back to the ark news of the dis
covery of land. The descendants of Noahs
timepiece and lookout are now popular resi-
dents of all parts of the globe. 1t would be
proud moment indeed if those two old
birds could be reSurrected and permitted to
drop into Madison Square Garden to-day
and look over the convention now in prog
reSs there. They would have every reason
to be proud of their descendants. Mr..
Rooster and Nine. Hen might not wholly
approve of the patent Matching machine,
but they certainly would point with
pride" to the Growing, cackling lot, who
make laundering lot of noise and lay an
occasional egg. Possibly the descendants
are more gaily dressed than the ancestors
We're, but the general family resemblance
would be there The original homing
pigeon would probably be more completely
at home, and would unquestionably take the
conceit out of some of the youngsters cooped
up there who travel on not only their plum
age, but the records they have made in fly
ing anywhere from 200 to 500 miles. How
Noah's lookout would take the modern
record-breakers across his lap and break
their backs, figuratively, while he told
stories about how he was hunting about for
a couple of days at a time before he sighted
Mount Ararat.
The descendants of Noah's family can
drop in at the Madison Square Garden and
thank their ancestor FOR having allowed the
original birds to live and breed and send
down to posterity such a jolly lot of fowls
before the original birds met their fate in
the inevitable pie to which old birds are
consigned. The average man or woman
would view the collection principally from
a gastronomic standpoint. The more highly
educated man looks at them, however, as
the horseman or cattleman looks at animals
from the standpoint of blood and breeding
The fowls would make rather expensive
pies, as rule, for some of them are valued
at as high as 500 each, and canvas-back
ducks even. are a trifie cheaper.
There are about a thousand fowls and
pigeons in the Garden, varying in size from
a forty-two pound turkey from the farm Of
Sherman Hartwell, up in Washington,
Conn.,, down to a carrier pigeon weighing
less than a half pound, with collection of
white warts on his beak and about his eyes
that would make the professor of chiropody
TREMENDOUSLY anxious to get at them with a
good sharp corn-knife. The fowls occupy
| the entire main floor of the Garden, the
pigeons having their quarters in the centre
| of the Garden, and the chickens theirs on
| either side. Turkeys, ducks and geese are
| over near the Fourth avenue end, and the
| Cochins, Brahmas, Plymouth Rocks and
| Wyandottes have the aristocratic Madison
| square end of the big barnlike inciosure.
| The big fowls are the most numer-
ous and because they are the high
| est-priced in the fanciers list they are given
| the position of honor. On the Twenty-sixth
street side are half dozen artificial tanks,
and in them Fred Mather, who knows more
| about fish than it would seem possible for
| any other half dozen men to know, has
| mandarin, wood, teal aud widgeon duck
| swimming about-al exceptionally good
collection for one to look upon. The other
| parts of the building are given over to such
| prosaic and utterly uninteresting affairs as
| chicken food specially prepared, first to
make hens lay eggs, and then to put good
shells ON those eggs; medicine to cure pip,
chicken lice and other disagreeable Incl
| dents of a chickens career.
In a small room at the Madison avenue
York Poultry Exchange, which is running
the show, has provided quarters for guam
| tity of toy dogs, like pugs, Yorkshire and
King Charles spaniels, black-and-tans, and
for the squirrels, rabbits and cats that are
competing for the prizes offered There is
plenty of room for these pets, for the num-
Der shown is quite small, and only all Incl
dent instead of feature of the show. Still
the collection is interesting.
of II II
Motifs Plymouth Rock hens announced to
that portion of Kingston, Ulster county, N.
Y, that she was the mother of lot of
chickens, Mr. Mott went out to congratulate
her. When he inspected the brood he found
one chicken that was dressed in down of a
peculiar character. That down refused to
form itself into feathers, and no sort of
coaxing would make the down evolve itself
into feathers as down usually does Even
the wings. though buil6 on the regulation
plan, wouldn't show any more feathers than
there are on the spines of a whisk broom.
"AlI right" thought Mr.. Mott, an
grow chickens without feathers, but
with swans down in their
place" The peculiar chickens eggs brought
out similar peculiarly dressed chickens, and
the result was that by careful breeding and
inter-breeding for seven years Mr.. Mott has
now got achlcken covered with down, aud
without any power to use its wings He
grows them with black, white and gray
piumage and they are so helpless as to
wings that they can't fly over an ordinary
I lockwood hedge. He believes fur her breed
ing win result in producing an absolutely
wingless chicken. They look like the So
called silkln, but differ in the peculiar
quality of the feathering. The tail feathers
of the new breed are like the fringe on a
woman's shawl.
Mystery chicken Matched from one
of the eggs found in tie basket of the girl
found murdered near Railway, N. j., at
tracts lot of attention. 1t looks as if the
bird had been left out over night in
cyclone, which blew all its feathers the
wrong way with SUCH tremendous vigor
that they had got set that way and refused
to grow in the ordinary fashion in which
feathers ought to grow. The other chickens
in SIGHT look upon this monstrosity with
very curious eyes and refuse utterly to have
any communication or conversation with
her. She is homely, and no mistake, but
much else couldn't be expected from a hen
of unknown parentage born in Jersey.
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